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1.
Istanbul is world's largest city located on two continents
2.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born inside the modern-day borders of Turkey
He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece
3.
Hagia Sophia was first a church, then a mosque, then a museum, and now a mosque again
4.
Turkey never had a female prime minister or president
Have ever heard of Tansu Çiller?
5.
People did NOT have last names during the Ottoman Empire
6.
Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in Economy in 2006
He won for literature, not economy
7.
Speaking Kurdish was banned until 1991
8.
The Ottoman Empire was named after the ancient tribe the Turkish people originated from
It was named after its first Sultan, Osman I
9.
Turkey was neutral during World War II
They declared war on the Axis powers at the final stages of the war, but no Turkish troops ever saw combat
10.
Mount Ararat is located in Central Turkey
11.
In the Turkish alphabet, C sounds the same as the J in jasmine
12.
Journalists in Turkey have one of world's worst press freedoms
13.
Turkey does NOT border Azerbaijan
14.
Tarkan was a prominent Ottoman era figure
He is a pop singer
15.
If all of world's 194 countries where to get the equal amount of land area, Turkey's land area would be the closest to it